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Global Information Society Watch 2007: Focus on Participation

Karen Banks, Roberto Bissio, Willie Currie, Anriette Esterhuysen, Chat Garcia Ramilo (eds.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2007), 215 pp.

"The experience of citizen involvement in public policy advocacy around the world has shown that the status quo tends to prevail unless political will to implement change is strengthened by active citizen participation. A “Global Information Society Watch” is needed to make governments and inter ... more

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Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
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Leif Packalén, Sharad Sharma

Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (2007), 162 pp.

"The use of comics as a campaigning tool for grassroots organisations is a relatively new phenomenon and has been tested so far only in India, some other South Asian countries and in a few countries in Africa. This manual on the creation of comics as a medium for communication of development ideas s ... more

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Production Costs of Audiovisual Works in Developing Countries

Emmanuel Cocq (coord.)

Paris: UNESCO (2007), 110 pp.

"This study aims at facilitating cost determination and levels of support for local content production in developing countries. It is based on the collection of detailed production costs for feature films for theatrical or television release, television fictions and works of animation, documentaries ... more

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The Indian Media: Illusion, Delusion and Reality. Essays in Honour of Prem Bhatia

Asha Rani Mathur (ed.)

Prem Bhatia (honoured person)

New Delhi: Rupa (2007), xv, 320 pp.

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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
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Nalaka Gunawardene, Frederick Noronha (eds.)

Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok;Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.

"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res ... more

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Access to Information: An Instrumental Right for Empowerment

London; Buenos Aires: Article 19;Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) (2007), 36 pp.

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The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India

Britta Ohm

Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.

"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist ... mobilisation and discursive strategies of Hindu nationalism. It looks at the economic, technological, medial, political, social, visual/iconographic and legal aspects of this interplay and delineates their concrete manifestations in news as well as in entertainment programming of everyday television (particularly in very popular shows and channels at the time). These aspects are set into the larger framework of globalisation, privatisation, commercialisation and neo-liberal policies, the related thrusts of social upward mobility (especially in the new middle classes), ‘good governance’ (instead of socio-economic justice) and shifting class-, caste-, majority-minority and national-regional relations in the context of a re-formulation of nation and state that defines and legitimises new logics of inclusion and exclusion. Secondly, this work is a study of "Indianisation" and lingual/representational politics in the context of the growing precariousness of the liberal-secular discourse and of democratic, independent mass media in India. Especially English-language journalists, whose largely critical coverage of the anti-Muslim violence experienced an hitherto unknown rejection on the part of TV audiences (and consequently produced a slump in advertising revenues), turned with the Gujarat crisis out to epitomise the ambivalence of challenging the definitional power of a privileged postcolonial class: its rightful critique carries the danger of vindicating and naturalising anti-minority cultural nationalism. The study follows and examines, before the background of a normative construction of a Hindi-speaking, ‘authentic’ media consumer, the changing position of both English and Hindi-producing journalists and producers, their respective perceptions of alienation, speechlessness and empowerment, their unwanted role as activists in the context of shifting meanings of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity', their difficulties or agility in assessing their options and maintaining, changing or even developing their convictions, and the strategies they find or reject for adapting to the circumstances." (Abstract) more

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Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930

Dwayne Roy Winseck, Robert M. Pike

Durham: Duke University Press (2007), xx, 429 pp.

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Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow

Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)

Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), 267 pp.

"Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global. The surge in transnational traffic in ... more

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Social Marketing: Marketing Moral, Human, Social and Cultural Values

Magimai Pragasam (ed.)

Kuala Lumpur: Signis Asia (2007), 104 pp.

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Asian Cinema: A Field Guide

Tom Vick

New York: Collins (2007), xiv, 274 pp.

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Media and Communications in the Third World

Zahid Hussain, Vanita Ray (eds.)

New Dehli: Kanishka (2007), xix, 249 pp.

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People's Communications for Development: How Intermediary Groups Use Communication Tools for Grassroots Women's Empowerment

Tesa Casal de Vela, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo

Manila: Isis International (2007), 608 pp.

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Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to Planning, Implementing, and Delivering Literacy Initiatives

Juliet McCaffery, Juliet Merrifield, Juliet Millican

Oxford: Oxfam (2007), xii, 289 pp.

"The first part sets out the four key concepts of literacy (as skills, tasks, social practices, and critical reflection), and describes associated approaches used throughout the world. The second half covers preparation and planning, offering practical guides for each key element of literacy-program ... more

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Headlines from the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere

Sevanti Ninan

New Dehli et al.: Sage (2007), 309 pp.

"Headlines From the Heartland: Reinventing the Hindi Public Sphere is the first in-depth study of the ongoing newspaper revolution in the Hindi-speaking states of India. With improved literacy levels, communications and purchasing power, the circulation of Hindi newspapers has grown rapidly in small ... more

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The Internet and Governance in Asia: A Critical Reader

Indrajit Banerjee (ed.)

Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC);Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (2007), 380 pp.

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Women and Media: Changing Roles, Struggle and Impact

Pooja Kataria

New Delhi: Regal Publications (2007), xi, 289 pp.

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Images and icons: Harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

Yvonne MacPherson

Gender & Development, volume 15, issue 3 (2007), pp. 413-423

"Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how ... more

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Community Radio: A User's Guide to the Technology
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N. Ramakrishnan

New Delhi: UNESCO (2007), 274 pp.

"According to the foreword, 'this manual is designed to accompany you in the demystification of each piece of equipment usually found in community radio stations'. This is exactly what the guide does. The first section provides an overview of all relevant technical questions to non-technicians, incl ... more

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Other Voices: The Struggle for Community Radio in India

Vinod Pavarala, Kanchan K. Malik

New Dehli et al.: Sage (2007), 319 pp.

"This book not only offers a historical account of the struggle for community radio in India, but also provides a documentation of the efforts of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and rural communities to realise the Brechtian mandate to use radio as a tool to build a robust civil society in the ... more

Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool Key Guidance

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book Inspiring Practice

Community Radio: A User's Guide to the Technology Key Guidance

Grassroots Comics: A Development Communication Tool
Key Guidance

Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
Inspiring Practice

Community Radio: A User's Guide to the Technology
Key Guidance